# Editable decision log template

OpenMax educational worksheet. Ten editorial field groups, not an approval system, legal record standard or compliance certificate. Use one record per bounded choice. Adapt authority, access, retention and review to your organization. Empty fields mean missing information, not implied consent.

## 1. ID, lifecycle and timestamps

- Decision ID:
- Short title:
- Version and last verified:
- Lifecycle: proposed / accepted / rejected / withdrawn / superseded / other defined state:
- Proposal time and timezone:
- Authorized decision time and source:
- Record confirmation time and source:
- Effective time, timezone and any prerequisites:
- Current applicability as of a stated time:

## 2. Bounded decision question

- Choice to make:
- Affected teams, activity and period:
- Explicit exclusions:
- Separate questions that need their own records:

## 3. Authority and roles

- Authorized decider or decision-making body:
- Authority reference and limits:
- Additional required approvals and their evidence/status:
- Coordinator / recorder:
- Contributors and specialist reviewers:
- People to inform:

## 4. Context and constraints

- Problem at the time:
- Observed facts:
- Intended benefits, not yet measured:
- Constraints and dependencies:
- Workable fallback / consequence of doing nothing:

## 5. Genuine alternatives

- Viable option A and consequences:
- Viable option B and consequences:
- Further options only if genuine:
- Same comparison criteria for each:
- Excluded options and reasons:

## 6. Evidence and assumptions

- Source IDs, versions, dates and relevant passages:
- What each source actually supports:
- Assumptions still unverified:
- Missing information and owner:
- Access owner / permitted audience:

## 7. Outcome and rationale

- Authorized outcome, or explicitly no decision recorded:
- Why this option:
- Why not the viable alternatives:
- Accepted disadvantages / tradeoffs:
- Evidence available at decision time:

## 8. Dissent, risk and conditions

- Material dissent and its basis:
- Response to dissent:
- Unresolved risk or uncertainty:
- Condition that blocks effectiveness, if any:
- Review trigger and required response (not automatically a reversal):

## 9. Actions and communication

| Action ID | Decision ID | Deliverable | Owner | Due and timezone | State | Completion or cancellation evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fill in | Fill in | Observable result | Assigned owner | Explicit time | Open / done / cancelled | Do not infer from decision approval |

- Snapshot time for the action report:
- Overdue actions and escalation owner:
- If reporting completion, define denominator and cancellation treatment:

## 10. Review and change history

- Scheduled review and reviewer:
- Trigger-specific review deadline:
- Review outcome and source:
- Supersedes / superseded by, with effective boundary:
- Dated corrections and reasons:
- Authorized redaction/retention handling, where relevant:

Before confirmation, ask a colleague to identify the current instruction, authority, effective time and next open action using only the record. If they cannot, resolve the gap before treating the record as authoritative.